6/06/2014

Shocking: the Obama administration's tries to personally destroy reputations of soldiers who served with Bergdahl

Megyn Kelly has a great segment over at Fox (available here). After the Obama administration referred to Bergdahl as a hero who had served with distinction, six soldiers who served with Bergdahl, some who had been his friends, spoke out to correct the record. The Obama administration's response: accuse them of not knowing what they were talking about, of "swift boating" Bergdahl, and finally describing them as psychopaths. Doesn't everyone think that this goes too far when the Obama administration engages in the politics of personal destruction against soldiers who did risk their lives and served honorably in Afghanistan? As someone whose son did serve in Afghanistan in the army, I find this attack by the Obama administration of our service men one of the most troubling things that I have ever seen by them. No political attack seems out of bounds for the Obama administration.Another discussion of the Obama administration "slimming" those soldiers who served with Bergdahl is available here. Here is a discussion of a woman who lost her son when he was searching for Bergdahl.More information on recent information that Bergdahl declared jihad in 2010 is available here.

6/04/2014

2014 is shaping up as yet another election where gun control advocates massively outspend those who support self defense rights

Politico has the list of races that they are targeting here. When you add Gifford's $20 million to the $50 million that Bloomberg plans to spend this year and the money that other gun control groups are putting up, this is going to be yet another election where gun control advocates massively outspend those who support self defense rights. From Politico:

“The NRA typically spends about $20 million an election cycle,” added Kelly.”We’ve had great success in the amount of money we’ve raised. … [T]his debate is not going to be out of balance anymore.” . . .

So Obama may have given Hillary a heads up on Bowe Bergdahl's swap but not Congress?

So did Obama have time to set up a lunch with Hillary Clinton to discuss the swap of five high profile terrorists for Bowe Bergdahl? How can Obama then argue that he had to move too quickly to inform congress?

Huffington Post on the claim that "there is absolutely no evidence" of net benefits of guns

From Mike Weisser at the Huffington Post:

The self-satisfied folks who really believe that 'guns don't kill people, people kill people,' simply refuse to accept the fact
that if you pick up a gun, point it at someone else and pull the
trigger, that the result is going to be very serious injuries or loss of
life. There Is no other way, including running over someone with a car,
that has such a devastating
effect. The NRA gets around that problem by promoting, with an almost
mystical reverence, the notion of using guns for self defense. John
Lott's nonsense to the contrary, there is absolutely no evidence which proves that guns save more lives than they destroy. . . .

"Absolutely no evidence which [sic] proves guns save more lives than they destroy"? Seriously? There are four more refereed studies that have since showed that guns on net save lives, but this is a start (see the list available here). Why is it that people want to ignore the academic work of so many other scholars?

During a one-on-one interview with The Detroit News, and a press conference outside police headquarters later Monday, Craig said he not only supports the right to bear arms, but Michigan’s Open Carry law, which allows licensed gun owners to carry their firearms in non-restricted areas, as long as they’re not concealed.

“It’s the law, and I support the law,” he said. “The Second Amendment was written more than 200 years ago. It’s not a James Craig law. “

Mass public shooting in Belgium, four dead at Brussels Jewish Museum

Muslim terrorist kills four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. Despite a five year prison term for a violent crime, somehow the killer was able to obtain what is claimed to be a machine gun. From the BBC:

Given that both Elliot Rodger and Attias used cars to hurt people and that they occurred in the same place, you might think that the media would bring up comparisons. But while a Google news search comes up with 156 news stories on "Elliot Rodger," there were only two news stories on "David Attias" and "Elliot Rodger." (Click on screen shots to make them bigger.)

Google is pretty abysmal these days for any useful search. Bing does a better job. There are only 9 news stories that mention both names and if you limit yourself to real news services, there are four such stories.